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Oracle Corporation today announced Oracle9i Application Server Release 2. The latest release includes clustering, caching and availability features, support for J2EE 1.3, Web Services tools and more. Oracle has also announced signifiant new Portal, Wireless and Voice features integrated with Oracle9iAS.

It appears that oc4j with J2EE1.3 support is still not available on the oracle site for download. If some knows otherwise please let us know the url where this is available.
The latest version of OC4J available at oracle site is 1.0.2.2.1 which is not fully J2EE1.3 compliant.

Because OC4J is actually just Orion server 1.5.2 with minor modifications from Oracle

This is certainly true for the first release of OC4J, but my understanding is that Oracle licensed a copy of the orion source and will have their own team extending it from there. This is based on discussions with the Oracle folks at JavaOne this year.

If this is true, you'd expect orion and OC4J to diverge over time. Of course, there could be an arrangement where the code bases are synchronized (or at least cross-pollinated) over time. I think it would be smart for Oracle to have done this. Does anyone have better or more current information on the arrangement between IronForge and Oracle?

If you download the OC4J 2.0.0 preview and look at the contents of oc4j.jar, you will see that it contains all the usual com.evermind.* packages but also oracle.j2ee.connector (JCA), oracle.j2ee.ws (Web services),oracle.j2ee.xanadu (?), oracle.jms (Oracle Advanced Queuing integration ?), oracle.jsp.

And there are several other directories that contain e.g. SOAP and WSDL support as well as the oracle.ias.cache package.

This makes me think that all the Oracle packages would be part of OC4J 2.x only while J2EE 1.3 support would be in a future release of Orion as well. Unless there are other agreements we don't know about, of course...

I was reasonably excited that now I would be able to deploy ejb2.0-based applications using local interfaces, etc. I assumed that 'complete support' meant, well, complete support. It does not, however, unless I am missing something. The ejb2.0 support hasn't changed - it's still somewhere back on draft 1 of the ejb spec.

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